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From Master Dave: And yet, aren’t newspapers becoming irrelevant? Well, surprisingly, no. The local paper, the Daily Camera, has figured out the secret to staying relevant and it offers something that no local Boulder Colorado citizen blogger could offer… What the Daily Camera offers is the blog capability of readers adding their two cents to […]

Bea emails: I want to let you know that one of our My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. I am not getting an affiliate fee or any type of profit by letting you know about this book. I am letting you know about this book, because […]

It must have been the chocolate cheesecake. At ACO conference a few weeks ago I sort of went off about positive thinking a bit. Becca elucidates: But I do know that I’ve been cut down before for appearing to think negatively. When I’m trying to understand how to prepare for something like a trip, event, […]

LA Times critic, Richard Schickel doesn’t read blogs. But he gets to whine about them: Criticism — and its humble cousin, reviewing — is not a democratic activity. It is, or should be, an elite enterprise, ideally undertaken by individuals who bring something to the party beyond their hasty, instinctive opinions of a book (or […]

From my recent release, www.bloggingblunders.com

I just released a new set of video tutorials – if you’re a Digg user, please digg it. http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Top_5_Blogging_Blunders Reddit user? Same thing: http://web2.reddit.com/info/1sepy/comments

I was tooling around Google video and found this video of Google-guy Matt Cutts.

From Metafilter: Most images the Smithsonian is selling, including photos of artifacts and historic figures, are not protected by copyright, Malamud said. But the Smithsonian site carries copyright notices and other warnings that would discourage most people from using historic images that should be publicly available, he said. The bigger issue: Malamud testified last year […]

This is why we have to distribute stuff through PDFs or HTML. I had one of the Word documents up on my screen when my son starting toying with the computer mouse. Somehow, inadvertently, he managed to pull down the “View” menu at the top of the screen and select the “Mark up” option. If […]

Big congrats to Scratching and Sniffing, a project brought to life with the help of Yvonne Divita. Short, exciting note to all my Best Buddies — Scatchings and Sniffings, my petblog, is scheduled to be the Typepad Featured blog this Thursday, May 17th. Hope you’ll stop by and say hello. We’re planning something fun!